Mid-Career Research Fellowship Providing Research Support in Interdisciplinary Social Science in Liechtenstein | ISRF - Independent Social Research Foundation

The Independent Social Research Foundation wishes to support independent-minded researchers to do interdisciplinary work which is unlikely to be funded by existing funding bodies. It is interested in original research ideas which take new approaches, and suggest new solutions, to real world social problems.

The Foundation intends to make a small number of awards to support original interdisciplinary research, across the range of the social sciences, to be held from a start date no later than the end of December 2015. Scholars from within Europe are eligible to apply.

The applicant should normally hold a salaried position at an institution of higher education and research, and be 10 years or more from the year of their PhD award. However, a shorter time from PhD award may exceptionally be considered, if the candidate has other qualifications to be considered as mid-career.

Research Fields

• Anthropology - Social anthropology
• Economics - Social economics
• Ethics in social sciences
• Geography - Social geography
• History - Economic history
• History - Social history
• Political sciences - Science and society
• Sociology

Application Deadline: March 3, 2014.